2021 Spring Classics CQ Game

[Armchair Cyclist]

With all available body parts crossed that they actually happen, I hereby launch the Spring Classics game.


Your team is to be made up of 12 riders, with a maximum total cost of 3000 CQ points during 2020 (you could use this page, setting the year to 2020, or download the 20201231.zip file from here) or use my selection spreadsheet tool here.


The races that will give points are the one day races in Europe from the Omloop to the Radklassiker, ie:

27-Feb​	Omloop Het Nieuwsblad Elite	1.UWT3
27-Feb​	Faun-Ardèche Classic	1.PS
28-Feb​	Kuurne - Bruxelles - Kuurne	1.PS
28-Feb​	Royal Bernard Drome Classic	1.PS
03-Mar​	Trofeo Laigueglia	1.PS
06-Mar​	Strade Bianche	1.UWT3
07-Mar​	GP Industria & Artigianato	1.PS
17-Mar​	Danilith Nokere Koerse	1.PS
19-Mar​	Bredene Koksijde Classic	1.PS
20-Mar​	Milano-Sanremo	1.UWT1
24-Mar​	Oxyclean Classic Brugge-De Panne	1.UWT3
26-Mar​	E3 Saxo Bank Classic	1.UWT2
28-Mar​	Gent-Wevelgem in Flanders Fields	1.UWT2
31-Mar​	Dwars door Vlaanderen - A travers la Flandre	1.UWT3
03-Apr​	Gran Premio Miguel Indurain	1.PS
04-Apr​	Ronde van Vlaanderen - Tour des Flandres	1.UWT1
07-Apr​	Scheldeprijs	1.PS
11-Apr​	Paris-Roubaix	1.UWT1
14-Apr​	De Brabantse Pijl - La Flèche Brabançonne	1.PS
18-Apr​	Amstel Gold Race	1.UWT2
21-Apr​	La Flèche Wallonne	1.UWT2
25-Apr​	Liège-Bastogne-Liège	1.UWT1
01-May​	Eschborn-Frankfurt	1.UWT3

CQ has Loire-Atlantique and GP Cholet down as 1.PS races, but PCS, UCI and the races' own websites all have them as 1.1: if it turns out that CQ is correct, I will include them, as I will the GP de Denain if it is uncancelled.

Point scale (full version here)

Rank	1st	2nd	3rd	10th	last to get >5 pts	To get 5 pts
UWT1	280​	170​	145​	62​	30th​	all finishers
UWT2	220​	132​	112​	46​	30th​	all finishers
UWT3	180​	108​	92​	36​	25th​	all finishers
PS	130​	78​	66​	24​	20th​	top 30

Send your team to me by PM on Cycling News or Velorooms by the flag dropping in the Omloop (its website still doesn't have a timetable, assume about 11am West Europe time) on Saturday 27th Feb. As ever, please try to send the CQ version of riders' names, and do not put anything else on the same line. I have sent my team to Comodoro, who was the first manager to send in a team.

Note the optimism in the thread title: I'm hanging on to the hope of Classics in the Spring. If fewer than 15 of these actually take place, I will aim to do something similar to last year and have a "Classics at some point in the year" redux version.

Any questions? Just ask.

 

[bminchow]

I'm replying 'yes' i am playing. i felt bad that no one had responded yet.

 

[MADRAZO]

I'm replying 'yes' i am playing. i felt bad that no one had responded yet.

Me too But as always the team will be sent close to deadline, but looking forward to it !

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

I thought I had posted this here last night at the same time as I put it on VR, but evidently not:

I hope teams will come in a rush in the last 2 1/2 days (only 2 now!): please remember that this game starts on a Saturday, not a Sunday.


Of the eight teams in so far, all have at least 2 unique picks, and 55 riders have been chosen. Two of them are on 6 teams, and 2 on 4.



It occurred to me that I have never established a rule in this game for what happens if a team is over budget and not changed before the deadline. I shall remove the cheapest riders that solve the problem, and make up the team with whoever is picked (on at least one other team in the race) that is allowable.

So if a team has a total of 3050, and the cheapest rider costs 55 points, I will remove him, and replace him with the highest priced rider who cost 5 points or less (and if there are 2 at the same price, the first of them alphabetically).

If the team total is 3080, and the cheapest two cost 30 and 55 points, I will remove and replace them with a 5 point cost rider and a zero, or a 4 and a one if there is no 5, etc.

If the team cost is 3080, and the cheapest 2 cost 30 and 85, I will leave the 30 point rider in, and replace the 85 with a 5 point man (subject to the above).


But it is very rare that this happens, and I am usually able to alert managers in time if there is a problem. And if you use the selection tool download that I have now added to the OP, it shouldn't happen at all.

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

Thanks. I was sure it was Sunday!

 

[ray10]

I sent my list.

 

[del1962]

Cant seem to access spreadshheet

 

[DJ Sprtsch]

What about the one from the main game, this one here

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Cant seem to access spreadshheet

Del seemed to get around the problem, and submitted a team not too long after his message, but I have removed the file from Google Drive and moved it back, which hopefully fixes it. The location may have changed: now here.

I haven't got time to look up the exact start time of the Omloop tomorrow, so let's call it 12 noon UK (also 1200 GMT/UTC) as a deadline.

So if you are in Europe and you are planning a lie in or a morning ride for your Saturday, better get your team in tonight.

 

[del1962]

Yeah I used a copy of the general games spreadsheet to select players that I still had on my laptop

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

So here we go: a slightly disappointing 22 teams, but with lots of bargains we could be in for some big scores this year, so long as the races take place.

Teams
Alphabetical order of teams, price order of riders, unique picks with an asterisk.

Amis Velo
VAN DER POEL Mathieu
VAN AVERMAET Greg
TRENTIN Matteo
NAESEN Oliver
JUNGELS Bob
POLITT Nils
VANMARCKE Sep
MOSCON Gianni
JORGENSON Matteo
TERPSTRA Niki
JANSEN Amund Grøndahl
VANSEVENANT Mauri


Armchair Cyclist
ALAPHILIPPE Julian
VAN AVERMAET Greg
NAESEN Oliver
STYBAR Zdenek
JUNGELS Bob
LAPORTE Christophe
POLITT Nils
SARREAU Marc
VANMARCKE Sep
MOSCON Gianni
TERPSTRA Niki
JANSEN Amund Grøndahl


Blues in the Bottle
VAN DER POEL Mathieu
STUYVEN Jasper
TEUNS Dylan
VALGREN HUNDAHL (ANDERSEN) Michael
JUNGELS Bob
DEWULF Stan *
GOGL Michael *
POLITT Nils
VAN DER HOORN Taco *
VANMARCKE Sep
VAN DEN BERG Julius *
VANSEVENANT Mauri


Bminchow
SAGAN Peter
VAN AVERMAET Greg
WELLENS Tim
TRENTIN Matteo
GARCIA CORTINA Ivan
JUNGELS Bob
THEUNS Edward
BATTISTELLA Samuele *
POLITT Nils
VANMARCKE Sep
PIDCOCK Thomas
BRENNER Marco


ChrisDK
LAMPAERT Yves *
STUYVEN Jasper
MERLIER Tim *
TURGIS Anthony
DRUCKER Jempy
HOFSTETTER Hugo
VALGREN HUNDAHL (ANDERSEN) Michael
HODEG CHAGUI Alvaro Jose *
NEILANDS Krists *
JORGENSON Matteo
VANSEVENANT Mauri
NORSGAARD JØRGENSEN Mathias


Comodoro
PEDERSEN Mads
WOODS Michael
VAN AVERMAET Greg
POELS Wout *
GILBERT Philippe
LAPORTE Christophe
POLITT Nils
VANMARCKE Sep
RUTSCH Jonas *
JANSEN Amund Grøndahl
HAVIK Piotr
REYNDERS Jens


Del1962
SAGAN Peter
VAN AVERMAET Greg
LUTSENKO Alexey
COLBRELLI Sonny *
NAESEN Oliver
CORT NIELSEN Magnus *
JUNGELS Bob
MOSCON Gianni
SOSA CUERVO Ivan Ramiro *
OSS Daniel
ARNDT Nikias *
PIDCOCK Thomas


DJSprtsch
PEDERSEN Mads
VAN AVERMAET Greg
LUTSENKO Alexey
COQUARD Bryan *
TURGIS Anthony
VIVIANI Elia *
LAPORTE Christophe
DE BUYST Jasper *
POLITT Nils
VANMARCKE Sep
LAWLESS Christopher
SKJELMOSE JENSEN Mattias


Googolplex
ALAPHILIPPE Julian
WOODS Michael
DRUCKER Jempy
STYBAR Zdenek
JUNGELS Bob
LAPORTE Christophe
POLITT Nils
DEKKER David
VANMARCKE Sep
PIDCOCK Thomas
LAWLESS Christopher
HENTTALA Joonas *


Josedin***
PEDERSEN Mads
SENECHAL Florian *
ASGREEN Kasper *
BALLERINI Davide
DEVENYNS Dries *
TURGIS Anthony
BRENNER Marco
HAVIK Piotr
HERMANS Quinten
NORSGAARD JØRGENSEN Mathias
REYNDERS Jens
SKJELMOSE JENSEN Mattias


Just Some Guy
VAN DER POEL Mathieu
VAN AVERMAET Greg
WELLENS Tim
BARDET Romain *
THEUNS Edward
POLITT Nils
PLANCKAERT Baptiste
PIDCOCK Thomas
TERPSTRA Niki
JANSEN Amund Grøndahl
HERMANS Quinten
REYNDERS Jens


Kazistuta
SAGAN Peter
MADOUAS Valentin *
TEUNS Dylan
TRENTIN Matteo
NAESEN Oliver
GARCIA CORTINA Ivan
BOL Cees *
POLITT Nils
VANMARCKE Sep
MOSCON Gianni
TERPSTRA Niki
VANSEVENANT Mauri


Leadbelly
ALAPHILIPPE Julian
MATTHEWS Michael *
VAN AVERMAET Greg
LIVYNS Arjen
POLITT Nils
ROWE Luke *
DEKKER David
VANMARCKE Sep
MOSCON Gianni
PIDCOCK Thomas
JORGENSON Matteo
VANSEVENANT Mauri


Madrazo
VAN AVERMAET Greg
STUYVEN Jasper
BALLERINI Davide
NAESEN Oliver
GARCIA CORTINA Ivan
HOFSTETTER Hugo
STYBAR Zdenek
GILBERT Philippe
LAPORTE Christophe
POLITT Nils
VANMARCKE Sep
TERPSTRA Niki


Mellow Velo
VAN DER POEL Mathieu
WELLENS Tim
NAESEN Oliver
TURGIS Anthony
GILBERT Philippe
JUNGELS Bob
THEUNS Edward
POLITT Nils
VANMARCKE Sep
VANSEVENANT Mauri
DEBUSSCHERE Jens *
HERMANS Quinten


Otoxiep87
ALAPHILIPPE Julian
BENOOT Tiesj *
NAESEN Oliver
BISSEGGER Stefan *
LAPORTE Christophe
THEUNS Edward
LIVYNS Arjen
POLITT Nils
VANMARCKE Sep
MOSCON Gianni
PIDCOCK Thomas
JANSEN Amund Grøndahl


Ray10
VAN DER POEL Mathieu
ANDERSEN Søren Kragh *
STYBAR Zdenek
GILBERT Philippe
LAPORTE Christophe
CALMEJANE Lilian *
POLITT Nils
DEKKER David
VANMARCKE Sep
PIDCOCK Thomas
HIVERT Jonathan *
EIKING Odd Christian *


Rote Laterne
VAN DER POEL Mathieu
VAN AVERMAET Greg
NAESEN Oliver
STYBAR Zdenek
GILBERT Philippe
THEUNS Edward
POLITT Nils
VANMARCKE Sep
HALVORSEN Kristoffer *
JANSEN Amund Grøndahl
PETIT Adrien *
LANGEVELD Sebastian *


Scrooll07
SAGAN Peter
VAN AVERMAET Greg
WELLENS Tim
DEGENKOLB John
NAESEN Oliver
VERMEERSCH Florian *
TEUNISSEN Mike *
PLANCKAERT Baptiste
VANMARCKE Sep
VERMAERKE Kevin *
PICCOLO Andrea *
VERSCHAEVE Viktor *


Search
WOODS Michael
VAN AVERMAET Greg
WELLENS Tim
NAESEN Oliver
GARCIA CORTINA Ivan
STYBAR Zdenek
LAPORTE Christophe
BOASSON HAGEN Edvald *
POLITT Nils
SARREAU Marc
VANMARCKE Sep
KREUZIGER Roman *


SemirS
VAN AVERMAET Greg
WELLENS Tim
BETTIOL Alberto
TRENTIN Matteo
NAESEN Oliver
STYBAR Zdenek
GILBERT Philippe
THEUNS Edward
DILLIER Silvan *
POLITT Nils
VANMARCKE Sep
OSS Daniel


Triley
PEDERSEN Mads
BETTIOL Alberto
DEGENKOLB John
TRENTIN Matteo
NAESEN Oliver
MOHORIC Matej *
GILBERT Philippe
POLITT Nils
VANMARCKE Sep
JORGENSON Matteo
TERPSTRA Niki
DE PLUS Laurens *


Josedin didn't actually pick half of that team, but was well over budget. So much so that even I as the legislator was unsure how the rules I set out above applied. But on taking out the six cheapest riders brought the team cost down to 2997, and although there were no 1, 2 or 3 pointers chosen, there were 6 freebies, so I put those in: I think that is the implication of what I described. The alternative would have been to remove the cheapest rider who cost more than the excess spend, and substitute in the most expensive selected rider with the remaining budget. I offered Josedin the choice, but haven't heard back yet. The alternative is in the spreadsheet as JosedinB.

 

[MADRAZO]

Some difficult choises this year. It was very tempting to pick Van Der Poel with the option of many good cheap riders, but with many very good middlepriced riders it was a tough choise.

In the end I had to choose between GVA, Stuyven and Ballerini or MVDP, Pidcock and Jansen. And felt option one was the safest, and also really wanted to have Ballerini.

A bit worrying though that Pidcock and also Moscon (that I could not fit in either despite being a obvious pick) were so good today, but a good start with Ballerini that I can see is a surprisingly rare pick

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Riders

Sorted by number of teams
18: POLITT Nils, VANMARCKE Sep
13: VAN AVERMAET Greg
12: NAESEN Oliver
8: LAPORTE Christophe
7: GILBERT Philippe, JUNGELS Bob, PIDCOCK Thomas, STYBAR Zdenek
6: JANSEN Amund Grøndahl, MOSCON Gianni, TERPSTRA Niki, THEUNS Edward, VAN DER POEL Mathieu, VANSEVENANT Mauri, WELLENS Tim

The collective team will consist of the nine riders on at least 7 teams, plus 3/7 of the total of the seven riders on 6 teams. That comes in quite a bit below 3000 points, but any combination of the 6 without MvdP was much lower, and any with him was over.

5: TRENTIN Matteo
4: ALAPHILIPPE Julian, GARCIA CORTINA Ivan, JORGENSON Matteo, PEDERSEN Mads, SAGAN Peter, TURGIS Anthony
3: DEKKER David, HERMANS Quinten, REYNDERS Jens, STUYVEN Jasper, WOODS Michael
2: BALLERINI Davide, BETTIOL Alberto, BRENNER Marco, DEGENKOLB John, DRUCKER Jempy, HAVIK Piotr, HOFSTETTER Hugo, LAWLESS Christopher, LIVYNS Arjen, LUTSENKO Alexey, NORSGAARD JØRGENSEN Mathias, OSS Daniel, PLANCKAERT Baptiste,
SARREAU Marc, SKJELMOSE JENSEN Mattias, TEUNS Dylan, VALGREN HUNDAHL (ANDERSEN) Michael

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Josedin has asked to take option B, so he gets his cheap picks back and loses a unique pick in Kasper Asgreen and receives (not his choice) Bob Jungels.

His team is now:
PEDERSEN Mads
SENECHAL Florian *
JUNGELS Bob
BALLERINI Davide
DEVENYNS Dries *
TURGIS Anthony
LIVYNS Arjen
POLITT Nils
DEKKER David
VANMARCKE Sep
PIDCOCK Thomas
VANSEVENANT Mauri

That means that BRENNER Marco, HAVIK Piotr, NORSGAARD JØRGENSEN Mathias, SKJELMOSE JENSEN Mattias become unique picks for Bminchow, Comodoro, ChrisDK and DJSprtsch respectively. It also means that Vansevanant moves into the Collective Wisdom team in his own right, and the remainder of the score is 1/3 of the total of the remaining six men on six teams.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Team Popularity

Rank	Team	Popularity score	Unique picks	Members of Coll. Wisdom
1​	AmisVelo	111​	0​	7​
2​	Armchair	110​	0​	8​
3​	Madrazo	102​	0​	7​
4​	SemirS	99​	1​	7​
5​	RoteLaterne	98​	3​	7​
6​	MellowVelo	97​	1​	7​
7​	Search	95​	2​	6​
8​	Bminchow	94​	2​	6​
9​	Otoxiep87	93​	2​	6​
10​	Leadbelly	89​	2​	5​
11​	Kazistuta	86​	2​	5​
12​	Googolplex	85​	1​	6​
13​	Comodoro	84​	3​	5​
14​	Ray10	82​	4​	6​
14​	Triley36	82​	2​	4​
16​	Josedin	80​	2​	5​
17​	JustSomeGuy	77​	1​	5​
18​	DJSprtsch	75​	4​	4​
19​	Blues_in_the_Bottle	70​	4​	4​
20​	Scrool07	63​	5​	3​
21​	Del1962	59​	4​	4​
22​	ChrisDK	29​	5​	1​
	CollectiveWisdom	120​	0​	12​

There is a tab for the similarity of teams (hence the final column above. Armchair and Amis Velo share 8 riders, and the following combinations share 7:
Amis Velo and Kazistuta
Armchair and Madrazo
Armchair and Otoxiep
Armchair and Search
Madrazo and Search
Rote Laterne and SemirS

while there are no less than 11 teams with which ChrisDK's selection has nothing in common: any pair of teams that does not include ChrisDK has at least one overlap.


When the spreadsheet is put up, you will see that there are columns and placeholders for a "So Last Year" team, and scores of riders in this set of races last year. I thought I had calculated these, but mistakes came to light, so I am ignoring that for this year, but keeping the facility in the spreadsheet, because I will reuse the formatting next year.
And when you see the spreadsheet (I will put up the link after I have processed today's races, but that will have to wait for tomorrow), you will notice several columns consisting purely of commas: that is so that I can produce tables on Velorooms.

 

[del1962]

Missed Vanmarcke this will not end well for me

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Major Purchases

Even in the year following 2020, while so many riders are available at ridiculously low prices, the riders who we spend most on are a major part of what makes for success or failiure in the game. So the picks of more than 500 points that we have are:

Van der Poel with Kragh: Ray10
with GvA: Amis Velo, JSG, Rote Laterne
with Stuyven: Blues in the Bottle
only: Mellow Velo

Alaphilippe with Woods: Googolplex
with Matthews and GvA: Leadbelly
with Benoot: Otoxiep87
with GvA: Armchair

Sagan with GvA: Bminchow, Scrooll, Del
only: Kazistuta

Pedersen with Senechal: Josedin
with Woods and GvA: Comodoro
with GvA: DJSprtsch
only: Triley36

Woods with GvA: Search

Lampaert with Stuyven: ChrisDK

GvA with Stuyven: Madrazo
only: SemirS

And for the same reason that rare picks are noteworthy, rare misses might be too: JSG didn't select Vanmarcke, Scrooll overlooked Politt, and both Del and ChrisDK decided against both of those very popular picks.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

So finally we actually get to the races. I'll start with the simpler of yesterday's events:

Race 1; Ardeche Classic

Jonathan Hivert came 9th, scoring 28 CQ points for the only manager who picked him, Ray 10.
He was the only rider in the first 30, the point scorers, selected for the game.

errrm, standings
Ray10 28
Everyone else 0


In the Green Jersey competition, there are just as many points available in a 1.Pro race like this as there are in the monuments. Points are distributed as CQ points are for a stage in the Tour de France: 80 for the winner, then 50, 35, 25, 15 down to 1 for 10th: points for a shared position are shared. A manager's position in each race is the total of all his scorers.

So here Ray would get 80 points for winning, and everyone else would get 6.95 ( a 1/21 share of the total points 2nd to 10th). To keep the numbers a bit neater, I will take 6.95 off everybody, including Ray, who thereby has a 73.05 to 0 lead over the field.

You don't really need to see that on a table do you?

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Race 2: Omloop het Nieuwsblad

Riders picked for the game

Race Pos'n		Pts	Teams
1​	BALLERINI Davide	180​	2 (Josedin and Madrazo)​
3​	VANMARCKE Sep	92​	19​
5​	GILBERT Philippe	70​	7​
7​	SENECHAL Florian	54​	1(Josedin)​
8​	TRENTIN Matteo	46​	5​
10​	POLITT Nils	36​	19​
11​	GARCIA CORTINA Ivan	30​	4​
13​	LAPORTE Christophe	24​	8​
14​	DILLIER Silvan	22​	1​
15​	TURGIS Anthony	20​	4​
16​	COQUARD Bryan	18​	1​
19​	NAESEN Oliver	12​	12​
23​	ANDERSEN Søren Kragh	8​	1​
24​	WELLENS Tim	7​	6​

and 26 other riders chosen for the game get 5 points for finishing.

		Points	Main scorers	Green points
1​	Madrazo	464​	Ballerini/Vanmarcke/Gilbert/Politt/Garcia	80​
2​	Josedin	397​	Ballerini/Vanmarcke/Senechal/Politt	50​
3​	SemirS	305​	Vanmarcke/Gilbert/Trentin/Politt	35​
4​	Triley36	266​	Vanmarcke/Gilbert/Trentin/Politt	25​
5​	MellowVelo	247​		15​
6​	Comodoro	242​		10​
7​	Ray10	240​		4​
7​	RoteLaterne	240​		4​
9​	Kazistuta	231​		2​
10​	Bminchow	226​		1​
11​	Search	216​
12​	AmisVelo	206​
13​	DJSprtsch	200​
14​	Otoxiep87	199​
15​	Armchair	194​
16​	Googolplex	172​
17​	Blues_in_the_Bottle	153​
17​	Leadbelly	153​
19​	Scrool07	116​
20​	JustSomeGuy	73​
21​	ChrisDK	40​
22​	Del1962	32​
	CollectiveWisdom	258​

In overall standings, Ray10 is 4th with 268, and everyone else is as they appear here (but one place lower for those 4th to 7th in this list)

And similarly, on Green points, Ray is second with 77.05, and everyone else's total is as here.

 

[bminchow]

Such a shame we only got 22 people. I should have helped advertise. But still appreciate that you are doing this. Even if i didn't have Ballerini or Pederson.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Race 3: Drome Classic

He's only gone and done it again: another UP for Ray 10 is the only scorer.
Odd Christian Eiking gets 5 points for 21st place, and Ray gets those 5 main game points and 73.05 green points again.

Standings:
(no real change, but a chance to test changes in the spreadsheet)

1​	Madrazo	464​
2​	Josedin	397​
3​	SemirS	305​
4​	Ray10	273​
5​	Triley36	266​
6​	MellowVelo	247​
7​	Comodoro	242​
8​	RoteLaterne	240​
9​	Kazistuta	231​
10​	Bminchow	226​
11​	Search	216​
12​	AmisVelo	206​
13​	DJSprtsch	200​
14​	Otoxiep87	199​
15​	Armchair	194​
16​	Googolplex	172​
17​	Blues_in_the_Bottle	153​
17​	Leadbelly	153​
19​	Scrool07	116​
20​	JustSomeGuy	73​
21​	ChrisDK	40​
22​	Del1962	32​
	CollectiveWisdom	258​

Green points
Ray seems to have found a profitable policy of getting the points on minor races

		Green points
1​	Ray10	150​
2​	Madrazo	80​
3​	Josedin	50​
4​	SemirS	35​
5​	Triley36	25​
6​	MellowVelo	15​
7​	Comodoro	10​
8​	RoteLaterne	4​
9​	Kazistuta	2​
10​	Bminchow	1​

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Race 4: Kuurne-Brussels-Kuurne

Race Pos'n		Pts	Teams
1​	PEDERSEN Mads	130​	4​
2​	TURGIS Anthony	78​	4​
3​	PIDCOCK Thomas	66​	8​
4​	TRENTIN Matteo	58​	5​
6​	COLBRELLI Sonny	46​	1​
7​	POLITT Nils	40​	19​
8​	VAN AVERMAET Greg	34​	13​
12​	VAN DER POEL Mathieu	18​	6​
15​	JANSEN Amund Grøndahl	12​	6​
16​	NAESEN Oliver	10​	12​
17​	DEGENKOLB John	9​	2​
19​	LIVYNS Arjen	7​	3​
21​	BENOOT Tiesj	5​	1​
22​	STUYVEN Jasper	5​	3​
27​	GOGL Michael	5​	1​
28​	ANDERSEN Søren Kragh	5​	1​
30​	TEUNS Dylan	5​	2​

Josedin got the entire podium (solution B to his being overbudget was definitely a good idea)

		This race	Main scorers	Green points
1​	Josedin	321​	Pedersen/Turgis/Pidcock/Politt	80​
2​	DJSprtsch	282​	Pedersen/Turgis/Politt/van Avermaet	50​
3​	Triley36	247​	Pedersen/Trentin/Politt	35​
4​	Comodoro	216​	Pedersen/Politt/van Avermaet	25​
5​	Bminchow	198​	Pidcock/Trentin/Politt/van Avermaet	15​
6​	AmisVelo	172​		10​
7​	JustSomeGuy	170​		5​
8​	Del1962	156​		3​
9​	Leadbelly	147​		2​
10​	MellowVelo	146​		1​
11​	SemirS	142​
12​	Otoxiep87	140​
13​	Ray10	129​
14​	RoteLaterne	114​
15​	Kazistuta	113​
16​	Googolplex	106​
17​	Armchair	96​
18​	Madrazo	89​
19​	Search	84​
20​	ChrisDK	83​
21​	Blues_in_the_Bottle	73​
22​	Scrool07	53​
	CollectiveWisdom	160​

Green Jersey

1​	Ray10	150.1​	0​
2​	Josedin	130​	1​
3​	Madrazo	80​	-1​
4​	Triley36	60​	1​
5​	DJSprtsch	50​	6​
6​	Comodoro	35​	1​
6​	SemirS	35​	-2​
8​	Bminchow	16​	2​
8​	MellowVelo	16​	-2​
10​	AmisVelo	10​	1​
11​	JustSomeGuy	5​	0​
12​	RoteLaterne	4​	-4​
13​	Del1962	3​	-2​
14​	Leadbelly	2​	-3​
14​	Kazistuta	2​	-5​
16​	Everyone else	0​	-5​

Standings

Rank	Team	Points	Change in rank
1​	Josedin	718​	1​
2​	Madrazo	553​	-1​
3​	Triley36	513​	2​
4​	DJSprtsch	482​	9​
5​	Comodoro	458​	2​
6​	SemirS	447​	-3​
7​	Bminchow	424​	3​
8​	Ray10	402​	-4​
9​	MellowVelo	393​	-3​
10​	AmisVelo	378​	2​
11​	RoteLaterne	354​	-3​
12​	Kazistuta	344​	-3​
13​	Otoxiep87	339​	1​
14​	Leadbelly	300​	3​
14​	Search	300​	-3​
16​	Armchair	290​	-1​
17​	Googolplex	278​	-1​
18​	JustSomeGuy	243​	2​
19​	Blues_in_the_Bottle	226​	-2​
20​	Del1962	188​	2​
21​	Scrool07	169​	-2​
22​	ChrisDK	123​	-1​
	CollectiveWisdom	418​

I wish Le Samyn on Tuesday were a 1.Pro race so that I could include it here, but instead the next instalment will be Laigueglia on Wednesday. That usually happens outside the timeframe of this game, so it is unusual to be including it. Ray 10 will probably have a unique pick in the startlist somewhere.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

And after 4 events, the state of the battle of the forums is


CN Forumites (Blues in the Bottle, Bminchow, Comodoro, Del1962, DJSprtsch, Googolplex, Kazistuta, Madrazo, Ray10, Scrooll07, SemirS, Triley36) 374
Team Velorooms (AmisVelo, ChrisDK, Josedin, JustSomeGuy, Leadbelly, MellowVelo, Otoxiep87, RoteLaterne, Search) 350

And the spreadsheet is to be found, hopefully, here.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Race 5 Trofeo Laigueglia

One of the keys to this game is the balance between cobbled specialists and those for the hilly races. If many people had been aiming for big scorers in the Ardennes, we might have seen more points here today.

Those relevant to the game:

Race position		Pts	Teams
3​	VANSEVENANT Mauri	66​	7​
12​	MADOUAS Valentin	18​	1​
15​	DEVENYNS Dries	12​	1​
16​	MOHORIC Matej	10​	1​

I'll take out the column for which riders yielded the points: it can easily be worked out. This time I did give the large number of low scorers some decimal shrapnel of remaining points.

		This race	Green points
1​	Kazistuta	84​	80​
2​	Josedin	78​	50​
3​	AmisVelo	66​	18​
3​	Blues_in_the_Bottle	66​	18​
3​	ChrisDK	66​	18​
3​	Leadbelly	66​	18​
3​	MellowVelo	66​	18​
8​	Triley36	10​	3​
9​	The rest	0​	0.21​
	CollectiveWisdom	66​

Green Jersey

		Green points	change in rank
1​	Josedin	180​	1​
2​	Ray10	150.31​	-1​
3​	Kazistuta	82​	11​
4​	Madrazo	80.21​	-1​
5​	Triley36	63​	-1​
6​	DJSprtsch	50.21​	-1​
7​	Comodoro	35.21​	-1​
7​	SemirS	35.21​	-1​
9​	MellowVelo	34​	-1​
10​	AmisVelo	28​	0​
11​	Leadbelly	20​	3​
12​	Blues_in_the_Bottle	18​	4​
12​	ChrisDK	18​	4​
14​	Bminchow	16.21​	-6​
15​	JustSomeGuy	5.21​	-4​
16​	RoteLaterne	4.21​	-4​
17​	Del1962	3.21​	-4​
18​	Armchair	0.21​	-2​
18​	Googolplex	0.21​	-2​
18​	Otoxiep87	0.21​	-2​
18​	Scrool07	0.21​	-2​
18​	Search	0.21​	-2​

Standings

Rank	Team	Points	Change in rank
1​	Josedin	796​	0​
2​	Madrazo	553​	0​
3​	Triley36	523​	0​
4​	DJSprtsch	482​	0​
5​	MellowVelo	459​	4​
6​	Comodoro	458​	-1​
7​	SemirS	447​	-1​
8​	AmisVelo	444​	2​
9​	Kazistuta	428​	3​
10​	Bminchow	424​	-3​
11​	Ray10	402​	-3​
12​	Leadbelly	366​	2​
13​	RoteLaterne	354​	-2​
14​	Otoxiep87	339​	-1​
15​	Search	300​	-1​
16​	Blues_in_the_Bottle	292​	3​
17​	Armchair	290​	-1​
18​	Googolplex	278​	-1​
19​	JustSomeGuy	243​	-1​
20​	ChrisDK	189​	2​
21​	Del1962	188​	-1​
22​	Scrool07	169​	-1​
	CollectiveWisdom	484​

Less than a point between the forums:

CN 387.0
VR 387.8

Staying in Italy for two more races at the weekend.

 

[Armchair Cyclist]

Race 6 Strade Bianche and what a race it was.

Race Pos'n		Pts	Teams
1​	VAN DER POEL Mathieu	180​	6​
2​	ALAPHILIPPE Julian	108​	4​
5​	PIDCOCK Thomas	70​	8​
6​	GOGL Michael	62​	1 (Blues in the Bottle)​
13​	WELLENS Tim	24​	6​
19​	VAN AVERMAET Greg	12​	13​
20​	BARDET Romain	11​	1​
21​	MADOUAS Valentin	10​	1​
23​	BETTIOL Alberto	8​	2​

and five other finishers for 5 points each.

		Pts this race	Scorers	Green pts
1​	JustSomeGuy	297​	Van der Poel/Pidcock/Wellens/GvA/Bardet	80​
2​	Ray10	255​	Van der Poel/Pidcock/fiver	50​
3​	Blues_in_the_Bottle	242​	Van der Poel/Gogl	35​
4​	MellowVelo	204​	Van der Poel/Wellens	25​
5​	RoteLaterne	197​	Van der Poel/GvA/fiver	15​
6​	AmisVelo	192​	Van der Poel/GvA	10​
7​	Leadbelly	190​	Alaphilippe/Pidcock/GvA	5​
8​	Googolplex	183​		3​
9​	Otoxiep87	178​		2​
10​	Armchair	125​		1​
11​	Bminchow	111​
12​	Del1962	87​
13​	Josedin	70​
14​	SemirS	54​
15​	Search	46​
16​	Scrool07	41​
17​	Madrazo	22​
18​	Kazistuta	15​
19​	Triley36	13​
20​	DJSprtsch	12​
20​	Comodoro	12​
22​	ChrisDK	0​
	CollectiveWisdom	155​

Green points overall

		Green points	change in rank
1​	Ray10	200.31​	1​
2​	Josedin	180​	-1​
3​	JustSomeGuy	85.21​	12​
4​	Kazistuta	82​	-1​
5​	Madrazo	80.21​	-1​
6​	Triley36	63​	-1​
7​	MellowVelo	59​	2​
8​	Blues_in_the_Bottle	53​	4​
9​	DJSprtsch	50.21​	-3​
10​	AmisVelo	38​	0​

Standings

Rank	Team	Points	Change in rank
1​	Josedin	866​	0​
2​	MellowVelo	663​	3​
3​	Ray10	657​	8​
4​	AmisVelo	636​	4​
5​	Madrazo	575​	-3​
6​	Leadbelly	556​	6​
7​	RoteLaterne	551​	6​
8​	JustSomeGuy	540​	11​
9​	Triley36	536​	-6​
10​	Bminchow	535​	0​
11​	Blues_in_the_Bottle	534​	5​
12​	Otoxiep87	517​	2​
13​	SemirS	501​	-6​
14​	DJSprtsch	494​	-10​
15​	Comodoro	470​	-9​
16​	Googolplex	461​	2​
17​	Kazistuta	443​	-8​
18​	Armchair	415​	-1​
19​	Search	346​	-4​
20​	Del1962	275​	1​
21​	Scrool07	210​	1​
22​	ChrisDK	189​	-2​
	CollectiveWisdom	639​

VeloRooms 540
CyclingNews 474

Industry and Art tomorrow: I see Davide Rebellin is on the start list, but no-one has chosen him. I'm not expecting it to be a big scorer.